Henry (Whack-Job) Waxman, prime sponsor of the "Cap and Tax" bill. Even he doesn't know what's in the bill.
I am pi$$ed about this, and EVERY SINGLE taxpayer ought to be as well. No matter the party – this is
BIPARTISAN STUPIDITY. Congress (both parties) are lackadaisically passing bills
SPENDING OUR MONEY without even knowing the details of what is in the bill.
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!
Recently, the democrats broke the code on two fronts:
- How to be sure that a bill is not read,
- How to include ANYTHING (bridges to nowhere, non-functioning airports, turtle and frog tunnels, etc.) with NO chance of anyone knowing about it until it’s too late.
Here’s how it works: Simply inflate the contents until the bill approaches (or exceeds) about a thousand (1,000) pages. That will assure that the bill isn’t read.
To counter the Republican’s move requiring that the bill be read, the dems have hired a “speed reader.” They did that before with the Porkulus bill. A speed reader was brought in to read the bill. They stopped him after a few minutes and even HE didn’t read the entire bill. It was 1,073 pages, spending $787,000,000 OF TAXPAYER MONEY and NO ONE READ THE WHOLE THING. And as usual, the devil was in the details. There were BILLIONS of dollars in earmarks in that bill. True, since the democrats redefined the term “earmarks,” there are no longer “technically” any earmarks under the new, improved definition. But under the real original definition, there are BILLIONS earmarked to pet projects.
So to support Obama’s statement that he’d eliminate earmarks, the Congress didn’t stop the practice, they just redefined what constitutes an earmark – simple, isn’t it.
We, the people, MUST STOP THIS INSANE PRACTICE.
What do we need “intelligent,” “energetic,” and “hard-working” representatives for when even an illiterate can vote “Yes.” So, he or she can’t read – so what? Apparently, reading is not a prerequisite for serving in our Congress.
Even Henry Waxman (the bill’s chief sponsor) admits that ““I certainly don’t claim to know everything that’s in this bill.” The bill was 900 pages not long ago – but that was then - today, it has grown.
1. The original bill, H.R. 2454, approximately 1,000 pages, was reported out of the Energy & Commerce Committee.
2. It was replaced this week by H.R. 2998, 1,201 pages, which will be voted on as an amendment in the form of a substitute.
3. The Rules Committee, last night (June 25th), released a committee report that includes a 300-page amendment to H.R. 2998. This 300-page amendment, the Waxman amendment (#121), is considered as adopted upon an affirmative vote for H.R. 2998. The bill, including the new amendment, now contains 1,501 pages.
300 MORE PAGES ADDED TO THE BILL OVERNIGHT.
The Heritage Foundation's economic analysis of that bill estimates that it will bring $840,000,000,000 (that’s BILLION) into federal coffers. That’s $840 billion dollars of taxpayer money and NO ONE will have read the entire 1,501 pages spending that money.
We have a RIGHT to know what we're paying for, there's supposed to be transparency ... BS.
We must now hope and pray that the Senate is more reasonable. It appears that there is a good chance that the bill won't pass in the Senate. That only means that it will go to committee so they can negotiate common ground - it doesn't mean that Cap and Tax is dead. With any luck, maybe the Republicans with cajones can neuter some parts of it and so reduce the damage. One can HOPE that the Senate can CHANGE it. We also need to target the eight RINOs who voted for it.
And once it gets through the senate? When will he sign it? During the campaign, he said: "Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them," Obama's campaign Web site states . "As president, Obama will not sign any nonemergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days."
We'll watch to see if he waits five days ... he hasn't waited five days before ... if he does, it will be the FIRST TIME.
We must REFUSE to accept "not knowing [fill in the blank] was in the bill" as an excuse. "Not Knowing" gets a failing grade, just like in school. If a congress person doesn't know what's in a bill, we've got the wrong person in Congress.
IF WE ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE, WE'LL DESERVE WHATEVER WE GET.